10 Best WWE T-Shirt Designs Ever, Ranked
The "Austin 3:16" shirt is one of the highest-selling shirts in the history of wrestling. The design is very simple, but the wrestler behind the message, Steve Austin, helped make the shirt become iconic despite the basic design. This does not mean that every shirt that fans loved in wrestling was as simple as the "3:16" shirt.
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The WWE has featured many intricately designed t-shirts that adorned audiences across the world. Even non-wrestling fans love wrestling shirts. Some great designs weren't always the highest selling, but with the modern rise of retro shirts in popular culture, many of the best-designed shirts have become holy grails for fans and collectors. This list will examine the 10 best t-shirt designs of all time.
10 WrestleMania 18 Shirt
The NWO was once the mortal enemy of the WWE. There was a time when it seemed impossible to imagine ever seeing the letters NWO on WWE television. By 2002, everything had changed. The WWE-owned WCW, WrestleMania 18 featured a clash of two icons from the Monday Night Wars, The Rock and Hollywood Hogan.
One of the T-shirt designs for the event was also a design that defined an entire generation of wrestling fans. The WrestleMania 18 T-shirt featured nWo seemingly splattered in paint over the top of the shirt. It was the perfect demonstration of the event and one of the coolest designs of all time.
9 CM Punk's "Best In The World"
Very few WWE wrestlers have a T-shirt that is high selling, iconic, and with a great design. All of these factors can be attributed to CM Punk's infamous "best in the world" T-shirt.
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The design was eye-popping for how well it helped represent Punk as a wrestler. The design was so iconic that a version of it exists in AEW which rarely happens when wrestlers move from one company to another.
8 Cactus Jack's "Wanted"
Mick Foley's Cactus Jack, known for his hardcore wrestling style, is beloved by fans despite his violent persona. Surprisingly, his iconic black t-shirt featuring a yellow "Wanted Dead Or Alive" image of himself has become one of the most famous in pro wrestling merchandise history, with a variation reading simply "Wanted Dead" also worn by the wrestler.
This shirt's recognition is unexpected given the brutality of the character it represents. It's also timeless since a "wanted" poster will always be eye stealing.
7 Eddie Guerrero's Scarface Shirt
Although his "Who's Your Papi" shirt has made a comeback thanks to the Judgment Day, Eddie Guerrero's "Latino Heat" shirt is iconic. The design is an homage to Scarface.
Some shirts in the WWE have clearly been bad parodies of classic popular culture fixtures, but this shirt works well, despite not being 100 percent original. The design is very Eddie Guerrero, which is why many fans love this shirt and still pay homage to Eddie's design.
6 D-Generation X Reunion Tour
The original D-Generation X shirt is one of the most iconic wrestling shirts of all time. Although that design is great and helped the faction become iconic, the relaunch of D-Generation X in 2006 designed an even better shirt.
DX took the trope of using spray paint to a new level as a faction and spraying it on a T-shirt tells fans everything they need to know about DX even if they don't know anything about wrestling.
5 Superstars Of The New Millennium
When the WWE was still the "WWF" the company produced some of the best-designed shirts of the promotion's history. The "Superstars Of The New Millennium" shirt defines an entire generation of wrestling in one shirt.
It was one of the last shirts of the Attitude Era. It's also a holy grail shirt that goes for hundreds of dollars in good condition thanks to its top-tier design.
4 HBK's Heartbreak Hotel Shirt
All over print T-shirts were a big deal in the New Generation Era. Shawn Michaels was a rising star in this era that had one of the most iconic all-over prints of the era.
HBK's "Heartbreak Hotel" shirt is loud, over the top, and awesome, just like Shawn Michaels in this era. The shirt holds up decades later and can still be seen in crowds in and away from the WWE today.
3 Stone Cold Skull Face
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin boasts the highest drawing power in the industry's history, which explains why his signature t-shirt is also the top-selling pro wrestling t-shirt of all time. Featuring a simple yet iconic black and white design that reads "Austin 3:16" on the front and a smoking skull with "Austin" on the back, the shirt's popularity skyrocketed as Austin's beer-swilling and stunning antics reached new heights.
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Although it's not his most iconic, Ston Cold's skull face design is one of the best shirts ever released in his likeness. It was a shirt that wasn't as widely available and, no, it will never have the power of "Austin 3:16" but it is a unique design that stands out in a sea of great Austin shirts.
2 Razor Ramon's "Oozing Machismo"
Razor Ramon was a wrestler with absolute star power. He exuded "coolness" and few shirts were as cool as his yellow "Oozing Machismo" shirt. The shirt was the same on both sides, but it doesn't take away from the appeal.
The design is perfectly 90s but is so well constructed that it has been seen in crowds and popular culture since its release.
1 Bret Hart All Over Print
From the moment that Bret Hart entered the WWE ring in his pink tights, he became the face of an endless list of eye-popping merchandise. The Bret Hart all-over print from the mid-90s is not only a great design, but also a rare find.
The shirt was not as widely distributed as some of the other Hitman shirts and, today, the shirt is a holy grail that can fetch thousands of dollars. FTR has been an outspoken advocate of this shirt and even released their own version of the best-looking shirt design in the history of the WWE.
